Google Search, GIFs, emojis & more—right from your keyboard

Gboard a new keyboard from Google for your iPhone. It has all the things you would expect from a great keyboard — GIFs, emojis, and Glide Typing — plus Google Search built in.

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Srikkant Srinivasan- CTO, Tartl

Because it is just so cool and easy to use. Among the first apps I download.

Anne-Laure Le Cunff- Entrepreneur

Definitely the best keyboard for Android.

Vinit Agrawal- Co-Founder at Tars (HelloTars.com)

Google' Gboard. You will rarely go wrong with Google.

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The Verge

Gboard, Google's iOS and Android keyboard app, has quietly updated its design by moving its GIF-making button up next to the word suggestion bar. The GIF-making feature has been around since last September, but it was hidden behind the emoji button on the bottom.

Engadget

For the uninitiated, Gboard puts Search right in the keyboard. And, it also adds GIFs, emoji-centric tools (including type and scrawl to search), and glide and voice typing to the mix -- which may make you kick your other keyboards to the curb. With the latest update, Gboard now boasts 120 languages in total.

Engadget

Simply fire up the Make-a-GIF button and record a Loop, which is a three-second Boomerang-like format. Or a Fast-Forward that lets you record up to a minute of footage and spits out a sped-up GIF. While we can confirm the button's new placement on iOS, as you can see below, we don't see it on Android yet.

Next generation inbox

Inbox does a great job grouping all of my itineraries for the trip, identifies the relevant one and groups automatically. You can also add and remove any of the itineraries manually.

Allan Caeg- Founder, NorthStories.io

I use a combination of Reminders and Google Inbox.
This is such a crowded space and it's extremely difficult to differentiate...
At the end of the day, sticking to giants like Apple and Google is safe, especially if you care about the company not shutting down soon

Exploring the world with all your travel info in one place

Does a great job of pulling in itinerary and suggesting destinations, but has a hard time supporting scheduled things e.g. tickets you buy to access a specific destination at a specific time.

Deniz Vatan- Developer, sailor, dart player, diver ..

It syncs your trip information from Gmail, and shows things to do. Also, you can plan your trip and save. You can see all the reservations from this app.

Ian Rumac- Android Developer @ Undabot

Google trips is amazing! Instead of switching between emails and maps and googling stuff I need, I can just use one app that has it all - automatically gets tickets and hotel bookings from my email, downloaded an offline map, pinpointed the most important things on it and it even suggests stuff you can do. It's awesome.

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Google's Alexa competitor, an in-home voice assistant

Google Home is your home assistant, controlled by your voice. You can ask whatever is on your mind from playing some music, or just a curious question to some hands-free shopping. It will be glad to assist you and your needs. It comes in three different sizes and four colors to match your interior and pairs with your smart home.

I know you already have a Google Home, but I'm adding it here for others. :)
Most smart home gadgets can now be controlled by voice using an Amazon Echo or Google Home. For example, to control your Philips Hue lightbulbs, you can say "Hey Google, turn on the lights". Although the Echo has more integrations than Google Home does, I find that Google Assistan…See more

Kevin Lou- Founder, Anytable 🍜

It also doesn't hurt that it looks great! The Google Home is as visible or invisible as you want it to be.

Google's new tool turns boring data into GIFs!

Google wants to be the Giphy for turning boring data into awesome animated illustrations - sort of. The search engine titan announced it has launched a handy animation tool that essentially lets you turn tedious number charts into slightly more entertaining GIF illustrations.

Mashable

Google wants to help make your research look better. To help journalists share their research and tell stories in a more visual and appealing way, Google just launched Data GIF Maker, a data visualization creator. "Data visualizations are an essential storytelling tool in journalism, and though they are often intricate, they don't have to be complex," Google…See more

TechCrunch

Google's News Lab launched a new tool for making basic data GIFs today. While the Data GIF Maker is mostly geared toward journalists, anybody can use it to make some halfway interesting visuals based on all kinds of data. But don't get too excited yet.

All of Googles open source projects under a single umbrella

Automatic backup and unlimited storage for all your photos

Have an access to your pictures from wherever you are, get in touch with people over a topic, share your captures with others, put in your interest and get a feed filled with amazing photos and ideas, based on the connections you created! All that in a simple app called Google+ Photos!

Create and share webpages

I would create an internal Google Site, and store the documentation itself on Google Drive, giving access to the right collaborators. This way you can be sure the documentation is always up-to-date, and the Google Site serves as a single point of entry.

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TechRepublic

As of December 2017, the new Google Sites lets you embed HTML and JavaScript, as well as other websites. That's a big change from a year ago when the new Google Sites mostly let you share items from Drive, YouTube, and a few other Google sources.

TechRepublic

A significantly updated and streamlined version of Google Sites goes live for G Suite customers in November 2016. Rapid release track customers should see the update November 9, with scheduled release availability starting November 21. Some things about Google Sites haven't changed. Sites is still a tool to create a basic website.

Explore over 150 Google Now voice commands in one place

OK Google is your google voice assistant. Whenever you say "Ok, Google" that means that you are ready to put in a voice command, so it launches. You can ask everything you can check on your phone, on the phone or on the web through your speech.

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Pocketnow

Need help remembering what Google Now can do on your Android phone? Here's an interactive way to learn OK Google commands!